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Following a growing number of studies that, over the past 15 years, have established entropy inequalities via ideas and tools from additive combinatorics, in this work we obtain a number of new bounds for the differential entropy of sums,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Rupert Li , Lampros Gavalakis , Ioannis Kontoyiannis

The connection between inequalities in additive combinatorics and analogous versions in terms of the entropy of random variables has been extensively explored over the past few years. This paper extends a device introduced by Ruzsa in his…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-05-28 Alberto Espuny Díaz , Oriol Serra

General extensions of an inequality due to Rogozin, concerning the essential supremum of a convolution of probability density functions on the real line, are obtained. While a weak version of the inequality is proved in the very general…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-05-03 Mokshay Madiman , James Melbourne , Peng Xu

The sumset and inverse sumset theories of Freiman, Pl\"{u}nnecke and Ruzsa, give bounds connecting the cardinality of the sumset $A+B=\{a+b\;;\;a\in A,\,b\in B\}$ of two discrete sets $A,B$, to the cardinalities (or the finer structure) of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-07 Ioannis Kontoyiannis , Mokshay Madiman

We establish several Schur-convexity type results under fixed variance for weighted sums of independent gamma random variables and obtain nonasymptotic bounds on their R\'enyi entropies. In particular, this pertains to the recent results by…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-01-28 Giorgos Chasapis , Salil Singh , Tomasz Tkocz

The entropic doubling $\sigma_{\operatorname{ent}}[X]$ of a random variable $X$ taking values in an abelian group $G$ is a variant of the notion of the doubling constant $\sigma[A]$ of a finite subset $A$ of $G$, but it enjoys somewhat…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2024-09-05 Ben Green , Freddie Manners , Terence Tao

A new notion of partition-determined functions is introduced, and several basic inequalities are developed for the entropy of such functions of independent random variables, as well as for cardinalities of compound sets obtained using these…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-06-05 Mokshay Madiman , Adam Marcus , Prasad Tetali

Ruzsa's equivalence theorem provided a framework for converting certain families of inequalities in additive combinatorics to entropic inequalities (which sometimes did not possess stand-alone entropic proofs). In this work, we first…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Chin Wa Lau , Chandra Nair

New upper bounds on the relative entropy are derived as a function of the total variation distance. One bound refines an inequality by Verd\'{u} for general probability measures. A second bound improves the tightness of an inequality by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-14 Igal Sason

Shannon's Entropy Power Inequality can be viewed as characterizing the minimum differential entropy achievable by the sum of two independent random variables with fixed differential entropies. The entropy power inequality has played a key…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-07-31 Varun Jog , Venkat Anantharam

Lower bounds for the R\'enyi entropies of sums of independent random variables taking values in cyclic groups of prime order under permutations are established. The main ingredients of our approach are extended rearrangement inequalities in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-10-20 Mokshay Madiman , Liyao Wang , Jae Oh Woo

Various lower bounds are established for the entropy of sums, products and their combinations. First, we derive a prime-field analogue of a version of the entropy power inequality established by Tao over torsion-free groups. Next, we prove…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-30 Lampros Gavalakis , Marcel K. Goh , Ioannis Kontoyiannis

We recognise that an entropy inequality akin to the main intermediate goal of recent works (Gowers, Green, Manners, Tao [3],[2]) regarding a conjecture of Marton provides a black box from which we can also through a short deduction recover…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Thomas Karam

The Pl\"unnecke-Ruzsa inequality is a fundamental tool to control the growth of finite subsets of abelian groups under repeated addition and subtraction. Other tools to handle sumsets have gained applicability by being extended to more…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-07-11 Pablo Candela , Diego González-Sánchez , Anne de Roton

We extend Bobkov and Chistyakov's (2015) upper bounds on concentration functions of sums of independent random variables to a multivariate entropic setting. The approach is based on pointwise estimates on densities of sums of independent…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-03-05 James Melbourne , Tomasz Tkocz , Katarzyna Wyczesany

The entropy power inequality for independent random vectors is a foundational result of information theory, with deep connections to probability and geometric functional analysis. Several extensions of the entropy power inequality have been…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Mokshay Madiman , James Melbourne , Cyril Roberto

A lower bound on the R\'enyi differential entropy of a sum of independent random vectors is demonstrated in terms of rearrangements. For the special case of Boltzmann-Shannon entropy, this lower bound is better than that given by the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-07 Liyao Wang , Mokshay Madiman

A new upper bound on the relative entropy is derived as a function of the total variation distance for probability measures defined on a common finite alphabet. The bound improves a previously reported bound by Csisz\'ar and Talata. It is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-10-20 Igal Sason , Sergio Verdu

Upper and lower bounds are obtained for the joint entropy of a collection of random variables in terms of an arbitrary collection of subset joint entropies. These inequalities generalize Shannon's chain rule for entropy as well as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Mokshay Madiman , Prasad Tetali

Shearer's inequality bounds the sum of joint entropies of random variables in terms of the total joint entropy. We give another lower bound for the same sum in terms of the individual entropies when the variables are functions of…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-03-23 Endre Csóka , Viktor Harangi , Bálint Virág
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